I'm not ready to give up on twitter, but enough of the people I care about following here have joined Mastodon to make it interesting to me to do so as well, so I'm now in the fediverse at fosstodon.org/web/@alanc.
C23 appears to have been published:
iso.org/standard/82075.html
I sort of expected to get a formal notification of some kind, but ¯\_(ツ)_/
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this effort over the past decade or so, particularly our editors @__phantomderp and Freek Wiedijk.
C23 appears to have been published:
iso.org/standard/82075.html
I sort of expected to get a formal notification of some kind, but ¯\_(ツ)_/
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this effort over the past decade or so, particularly our editors @__phantomderp and Freek Wiedijk.
A commenter at Citation Needed suggested I have not adequately explained why I support Kamala Harris, and why I believe it is absolutely critical that everyone who can vote comes out to vote for her. In case I have indeed not been clear, here is my response.
PLEASE vote.
ALT Although America is facing a choice between two imperfect candidates, the choice between imperfection and fascism is clear. Harris believes in democracy. Her policy positions on topics including strong protections around reproductive rights, increased accessibility to healthcare, and how taxes should be distributed across income classes more closely align with my own. We do not agree on everything — her support for Israel, her relatively weak statements on supporting the transgender community, some of her history when it comes to police and prison reform are just a few examples of where we diverge. However, I am a pragmatist, and Harris’s shortcomings pale in comparison to Trump’s. Once Harris is elected, I believe she is far more likely to listen to the people she serves than her opponent, and I think our chances of influencing her actions on the topics where we diverge are far higher than with Trump. The starting point is also vastly different — for example, where Harris has been wea
H. Ye and H. Hu, "Too Subtle to Notice: Investigating Executable Stack Issues in Linux Systems" ("BADASS")
huhong789.github.io/papers/y…
[OpenBSD's been calling out the Linux antipattern that is PT_GNU_STACK for years..]
x.com/canadianbryan/status/1…
Linux has a tendency toward introducing dangerous antipatterns to the ecosystem, the comparison Theo makes to executable-stacks is a real one, and keeps being repeated.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
25 years ago on Sep 29, 1999, MITRE announced the CVE Initiative. There's too much to say, so I'll be brief. CVE was not possible without a concerted, mostly-voluntary, community-wide effort. It's accomplished a lot, but it's daunting to see how much still needs to be done...
Google post on "Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source" shows how transitioning to memory safe code dropped memory vulnerabilities from 76% to 24% on Android over 6 years:
security.googleblog.com/2024…
Today is Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update release day, so for #OracleSolaris we have released updates for 11.4 & patches for 10.
For info on 11.4 SRU 71, see blogs.oracle.com/solaris/pos… .
For info on the security fixes in those releases, see the Oracle Systems Risk Matrix in the July 2024 CPU Bulletin at oracle.com/security-alerts/c… and the Oracle Solaris Third Party Bulletin for July 2024 at oracle.com/security-alerts/b… .
"I decided to write my own version of Unix V7 so students could learn all about it and study the operating system code." Watch Andrew S. Tanenbaum, recipient of the 2023 ACM Software System Award, talk abt the origin of MINIX and its long-lasting impact: youtu.be/mHqX6aXh5Fc
The RADIUS protocol is commonly used to control admin access to networking gear. Today, Cloudflare and a team of researchers are disclosing a vulnerability in RADIUS based on its outdated use of MD5. Learn more: cfl.re/3xNIoBw
🧮 Clang and GCC are introducing the "counted_by" attribute for flexible array members!
The new attribute helps compilers know the bounds of a flexible array member, making hardened apps less exploitable.
👀 Learn more ⬇️ goo.gle/3LiaQP1